| ▲ | thin_carapace 2 hours ago | |
your second last paragraph seems out of place, are you entirely sure in knowing that I see certain things as problematic? anyway the described phenomenon is not uniquely assignable to any particular implementation of authoritarianism. you would have to specify further to make the case for fascism. I'm pretty sure communists are happy to deploy cults of personality, a class which the parent child model can be seen as belonging to. labelling one side while ignoring that the other side behaves similarly makes it look like politics are more important to you than solving root issues. based on the tragedy of the commons, some degree of personal involvement is required to maximise work productivity, otherwise all human concern is nongenuine/performatory. however absolute power corrupts absolutely, specifically due to personal involvement, hence your proposed system of governance will not arise unless it is powerful enough to systematically overcome a ruling class with the sole goal of never relinquishing power. so maybe you're right? | ||
| ▲ | therobots927 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Fair enough maybe I should’ve gone with the word authoritarian as opposed to fascist. I’m certainly not a fan of how the USSR was run either. But to be honest it seems like China might at least be a competent authoritarian system from what I can tell. Which if you’re going to have an authoritarian government, competence is pretty damn important. I think a web model might show up at some point but it certainly seems like an uphill battle. Project Cybersyn in chile is pretty inspirational to me. Unfortunately the Allende government was sabotaged by the CIA - a common story for any attempt made at actually implementing a more web-like social / economic model as opposed to the pyramid structure we have in the west. It seems to me like a graph theory problem more than anything else. For whatever reason large human groups haven’t figured out how to build a distributed governance / resource structure that prevents insanely out of whack power dynamics that generally lead to a lot of death and destruction for everyone involved. | ||